Rudolph Day February 2026

Well I've just noticed my last post was for Rudolph Day last October! Motivation has been at zero. I had very little all last year and it completely disappeared both before and after my back op. Hopefully I'm beginning to regain some as I have done two paintings as well in the last couple of weeks.

 

 

I used one of the stamps from Stampers Anonymous Festive Collage collection which I won last year from the Allsorts Challenge. Stamped in Rustic Wilderness and coloured the berries with a red copic pen to add a bit of colour. The background paper is I think an old SU paper. I was going to ink round the edges of the stamp panel but I decided against it as I rather liked the cleaner look.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

NBUS challenge
 

Rudolph Day October

It's that time of the month again! October Rudolph Day is here,only one more before the Big Day, Not sure where this year has gone! Here's my card.

 

I used a NBUS die which I think probably came from a magazine, but I'm not sure,I've used it as if it is a sprig of mistletoe but the leaves don't look like mistletoe to me, so you'll have to imagine they do! I coloured the leaves with Copics the added aome white Nuvo drops to the berries with a little bit of a sparkly stickles as well. Then I wasn't sure what to do with it and tried several ideas, none of which I really liked. Eventually I thought about embossing folders and had a rummage through looking for something Christmassy. This one popped out and again I think from a magazine and definitely another NBUS item. I was quite pleased with the finished result - don't know why I don't use embossing folders more often.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge

NBUS Challenge

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge 

Camping at 50!

My middle son recently bought a van which he is slowly converting to a camper van so they can have weekends away without spending on hotels. It was also his 50th birthday last month so I made him a hopefully suitable card.

 

The background was printed from  Craft Artist Daisy Trail Pin Up Chic collection. The image is from Dr Digi coloured with Copics and fussy cut. I used a speed limit sign for his age.

 

Challenges: 

CD Sunday Plus Challenge 

Kokeshi Doll

It's Roy's great niece's 12th birthday soon. For the last few years she has been very into unicorns but I'm running out of ideas for unicorn cards now, so asked her Mum what her current obsession was. Apparently it is still unicorns but also all things Japanese and Korean! So when I saw this Spellbinders die set of Kokeshi Dolls I had to buy it. It was a bit fiddly to put together but also quite fun.

 

I use a Globeland stencil for the backgound with Distress Inks,and of course it was perfect for using up a lot of snippets. 

Of  course I made things more difficult for me by only having about six square inches to work on, see my desk below!

Challenges:

 Snippets Playground

 Allsorts Challenge

Creative Crafters 

September Rudolph Day

Well I've been MIA again and completely missed last month's Rudolph Day, but I have managed a card for this month!

I managed to go on a cruise to Iceland in July, which had been on our list of to do cruises, which was enjoyable but a bit strange being on my own. I think it hit me more though when I got back and couldn't find much motivation to do anything. Fortunately the Art Society had an exhibition in August so as I'm treasurer I had to get off my backside and do things! I've only just finished sorting all the sales and accounts out so now have a bit of time to try and get back to creating!

 

Anyway here's my card, nothing very exciting though. I used a Penny Black Masterpiece made simple from the Winter Dreams collection and added a pale blue sparkly frame. The sentiment is a very old peel off.

July Rudolph Day

I am delighted to say that I have been asked to be a guest designer at Rudolph Days Challenge this month. 

For my card I have used the last of the toppers that I made on Craft Artist.  

As I had printed out more than one sheet I spent some time fussy cutting the snowman out and decoupaging him. Although it doesn't show up in the photo, he has been liberally "winked"!

Do come and join in the fun, I'm looking forward to seeing all your creations!

June Rudolph Day

This is just going to be a short post as a) I'm a bit busy and b) my room is like a sauna! I have used another of the toppers I created last year in Craft Artist.

 

 

Although it doesn't show very well the snowflakes have all been done with Wink of Stella for a bit of sparkle. The mat is Pool Party. Some of the others I matted with navy card. Alogether I made six of this design.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day.
 

Golfing Unicorn!!!

I made this card last year for Roy's great-niece's birthday. She has been unicorn mad for a few years now and I've made her one or two items in the past. You can see them  here and here. She's also a keen golfer. 

Not surprisingly there are no stamps, digital or otherwise that I could find that would fulfill this criteria. So I turned to AI and asked it to create a "golfing unicorn" After a few tweaks this is what I ended up with. I'm really hoping her likes will have changed by the time it's her birthday this year. Meanwhile I have been waiting for a suitable challenge to enter it in, and this week The Paper Shelter has just the thing!

 

Rudolph Day- May

While Roy was ill last year and time was taken up with hospital visits I realised that I wasn't going to have much time to spend making Christmas cards. So I went for a very easy option of designing some card toppers in Craft Artist and printed a lot out.

However events overtook me and no cards were made and very few sent out. So I am left  with a fair few sheets of toppers.

Time to start to use some of them up. If I start now I might have used them all by Christmas! 

This was the first design. As there are two to a page I was able to cut them both out at the same time using two Crealies square dies. Mounted them both onto a piece of red card and then onto a white card blank. So two down and only another six of this design to go!

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Snippets Win - A Year ago!

I can't believe it's over a year ago that I won this stamp at the Snippets Playground and made this card which has been sitting in my drafts ever since!

Time for the world to see it!

 

As far as I can recall, because it is a long time ago, I smudged some inks over a piece of white card, indigo blue, pool party and crushed curry, then randomly stamped the words on top. Then stamped the flower three times after stamping off first. I stamped the flower again on a piece of scrap card fussy cut it out and placed it over the centre flower. The square was matted onto another snippet of pool party card and a strip of crushed curry card went underneath it. The stamp is from Aall & Create.

 

Challenges:

Snippets Playground

My Time to craft

Seize the birthday